Planning Documents for a National Initiative on Complex Systems in K-16 Education

Complex Systems in K-16 Education: Bibliography

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Borovsy, R., McDonald, M., Martin, F., & Resnick, M.. (1996). Things that blink: Computationally augmented name tags. IBM Systems Journal, 35(3), 488-495.

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Colella, V., Borovoy, R., & Resnick, M. (1998). Participatory simulations: Using computational objects to learn about dynamic systems. Proceedings of the CHI'98 Conference. Los Angeles, CA, April, 1998.

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Glasser, W. (1998). Choice theory: A new psychology of personal freedom. New York: HarperCollins.

Harmon, J. (Eds.). (1998). Complexity in the classroom. New York: New York State English Council.

Hirsch, G.B. (1998). Innovation in schools: A model to help structure the discussion and guide the search for strategies. Report No. SE1998-04. Creative Learning Exchange, Acton, MA. Available at www.clexchange.org.

Jackson, S., Stratford, S., Krajcik, J., & Soloway, E. (1996). A learner-centered tool for students building models. Communications of the ACM, 39(4), 48-49.

Jacobson, M.J., Brecher, K., Clemens, M., Farrell, W., Kaput, J., Reisman, K., & Wilensky, U. (1998). Education in complex systems. Nashua, NH: New England Complex Systems Institute.

Kaput, J., & Roschelle, J. (1998). Educational software components of tomorrow: A Testbed for sustainable development of interoperable objects for middle school mathematics (ESCOT). (NSF REC #9804930). National Science Foundation Grant, Washington, DC.

Kaput, J., Bar-Yam, Y., Jacobson, M. Jakobsson, E., Lemke, J., Wilensky, U., & Collaborators. Two Roles for Complex Systems in Education: Mainstream Content and Analytical Tools & Perspectives, Report to NSF on Project #REC-9980241 http://necsi.net

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Markham, F.W. (1998). A method for introducing the concepts of chaos theory to medical students. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 19(1), 1-4.

Perrone, C., Spencer, S., Ambach, J., & Repenning, A. (1996). Computers in the classroom: Moving from tool to medium. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, 2(3).

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Repenning, A. (1995). Agentsheets: A medium for creating domain oriented visual languages. Computer, 28(3), 17-25.

Repenning, A., Ioannidou, A., & Ambach, J. (1998). Learn to communicate and communicate to learn. Journal of Interactive Media.

Repenning, A., Rausch, M., Phillips, J., & Ioannidou, A. (1998). Using Agents as a Currency of Exchange between End-Users. Orlando, FL: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education.

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Resnick, M. (1995). Turtles, termites, and traffic jams: Explorations in massively powerful microworlds. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Resnick, M. (1996). Beyond the centralized mindset. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 5(1), 1-22.

Resnick, M. (1998). Technologies for lifelong kindergarten. Educational Technology Research and Development, 46(4).

Resnick, M., Berg, R., & Eisenberg, M. (2000). Beyond black boxes: Bringing transparency and aesthetics back to scientific investigation. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 9, (1), 7-30.

Resnick, M.. (in press). Thinking like a tree (and other forms of ecological thinking). International Journal of Computers for Matehmatical Learning.

Resnick, M. & Wilensky, U. (1998). Diving into complexity: Developing probabilistic decentralized thinking through role-playing activities. Journal of Learning Sciences, 7(2), 153-172.

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Roschelle, J., Kaput, J., & Stroup, W. (1998). SimCalc: Acclerating students' engagement with the mathematics of change. In M. Jacobson, & Kozma, R. (Eds.), Educational Technology and Mathematics and Science for the 21st Century (pp. 47-75). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Roschelle, J., DiGiano, C., Koutlis, M., Repenning, A., Phillips, J., Jackiw, N., & Suthers, D. (1999). Developing educational software components. IEEE Computer, 32, 50-58.

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Steed, M. (1992). Stella, a simulation construction kit: Cognitive process and educational implications. Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 11, 39-52.

Stroup, W., & Wilensky, U. (1999). Assessing learning as emergent phenomena: Moving constructivist statistics beyond the bell curve. In A. E. Kelly & R. Lesh (Eds.), Handbook of Methods for Research in Learning and Teaching Science and Mathematics. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Erlbaum.

Tooley, J. (1999). New versus old Barber: An unfinished revolution. British Journal of Educational Studies, 47(1), 28-42.

Wilensky, U. (1993). Connected mathematics: Building concrete relationships with mathematical knowledge. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

Wilensky, U. (1994). GasLab: A Model-based Toolkit and Curriculum for Exploring Ideal Gases and Statistical Mechanics. NSF REC #9632612. National Science Foundation, Washington, DC.

Wilensky, U., & Resnick, M. (1995). New thinking for new sciences: Constructionist approaches for exploring complexity. San Francisco, CA.

Wilensky, U. (1995a). Paradox programming and learning probability: A case study in a connected mathematics framework. Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 14(2), 231-280.

Wilensky, U. (1995). Learning probability through building computational models. Paper presented at the 19thInternational Conference on the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Recife, Brazil.

Wilensky, U. (1996). Modeling rugby: Kick first, generalize later? International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning, 1(1).

Wilensky, U. (1997a). What is normal anyway? Therapy for epistemological anxiety. Educational Studies in Mathematics, 33(2), 171-202.

Wilensky, U. (1997b). StarLogoT [computer software]. Developed under . NSF REC #9632612, "Making sense of complex phenomena thorugh building object-based parallel models." Available at http://ccl.nwu.edu/cm/starlogoT/

Wilensky, U., & Reisman, K. (1998). Learning biology through constructing and testing computational theories-an embodied modeling approach. Nashua, NH: New England Complex Systems Institute.

Wilensky, U., Hazzard, E & Froemke, R. (1999). An extensible modeling toolkit for exploring statistical mechanics. Proceedings of the Seventh European Logo Conference—EUROLOGO'99, Sofia, Bulgaria.

Wilensky, U. (1999). GasLab-an extensible modeling toolkit for exploring micro-and macro-views of gases. In N. Roberts, Feurzeig, W., & Hunter, B. (Eds.), Computer Modeling and Simluation in Science Education. Berlin: Springer Verlag.

Wilensky, U., & Stroup, W. (1999). Learning through participatory simulations: Network-based design for systems learning in classrooms. Stanford University, Standford, CA.

Wilensky, U., & Resnick, M. (1999). Thinking in levels: A dynamic systems perspective to making sense of the world. Journal of Science Education and Technology, 8(1), 3-19.

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